Posts Tagged ‘Ariyon Bakare’

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of two spin-offs to the Star Wars canon, this one placed inbetween the lacklustre Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and next Christmas’ Episode VIII. Episode IX will come at Christmas 2019, with a young Han Solo movie being released at the yuletide season inbetween… […]

New Blood Case 2 centres around the mysterious death on a building site where, to us viewers there’s no mystery – we know what happened from the start, but the cops have to figure it all out because the baddies certainly aren’t going to spill the beans. The site is where the Scimitar is being […]

New Blood. Some old ideas. But it all balances out as a show worth watching. Mark Strepan (as Serious Fraud Officer Stefan Kowolski) and Ben Tavassoli (as pavement-plodder-donut-scoffer-turned-budding detective Rash Sayyad) are new to these eyes, and they’re brought together as typical buddy-buddy cops, forever getting on each other’s nerves, but needing each other to […]

The Woman Who Lived is an episode I had high expectations for. They’d brought in their biggest guest star of the series in Maisie Williams, showing up in The Girl Who Died as… the girl who died, whilst living in a Viking village, and giving her just a very so-so storyline. This time round, she’s […]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I saw a lot of spooky goings on involving the wonderful Eddie Marsan, so good in the recent Still Life (as […]

Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell had a very strong opening with its first episode and, even though I didn’t follow everything that was going on, I enjoyed it immensely and will be watching the rest of the series, which continues tomorrow on BBC1 at 9pm. The series is based on the 2004 novel by Susanna […]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is a TV adaptation based on a novel by Susanna Clarke. Since I don’t read books, I’d never heard of it before, but when the trailer appeared on TV, I saw a lot of spooky goings on involving the wonderful Eddie Marsan, so good in the recent Still Life (as […]